Skip to main content
Go back

The Last Train on King, 1963

A freight locomotive moves down a crowded street with hundreds of spectators standing on either side.

The Thomas Bouckley Collection

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

The final CN freight train on King Street leaves downtown Oshawa in 1963 as the lines are torn up behind it. While a railway connection to the city’s downtown would exist until 2004, the shift from factory production in the downtown to an industrialized South End near the waterfront changed the face of Oshawa irrevocably.